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this movie feel more like a non-stop cry for attention , than an attempt at any kind of satisfying entertainment .
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overall , it's a pretty mediocre family film .
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love may have been in the air onscreen , but i certainly wasn't feeling any of it .
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in addition to the overcooked , ham-fisted direction , which has all the actors reaching for the back row , the dialogue sounds like horrible poetry .
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the very definition of what critics have come to term an " ambitious failure . "
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it's as if de palma spent an hour setting a fancy table and then served up kraft macaroni and cheese .
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the movie ends with outtakes in which most of the characters forget their lines and just utter 'uhhh , ' which is better than most of the writing in the movie .
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worthy of the gong .
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while certainly more naturalistic than its australian counterpart , amari's film falls short in building the drama of lilia's journey .
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i found the movie as divided against itself as the dysfunctional family it portrays .
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the soul-searching deliberateness of the film , although leavened nicely with dry absurdist wit , eventually becomes too heavy for the plot .
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the movie doesn't add anything fresh to the myth .
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as inept as big-screen remakes of the avengers and the wild wild west .
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comes across as a relic from a bygone era , and its convolutions . . . feel silly rather than plausible .
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moves in such odd plot directions and descends into such message-mongering moralism that its good qualities are obscured .
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it's a very sincere work , but it would be better as a diary or documentary .
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once one experiences mr . haneke's own sadistic tendencies toward his audience , one is left with a sour taste in one's mouth , and little else .
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oops , she's really done it this time . that chirpy songbird britney spears has popped up with more mindless drivel .
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it's a loathsome movie , it really is and it makes absolutely no sense .
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a chiller resolutely without chills .
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for those of us who respond more strongly to storytelling than computer-generated effects , the new star wars installment hasn't escaped the rut dug by the last one .
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the director mostly plays it straight , turning leys' fable into a listless climb down the social ladder .
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" bad " is the operative word for " bad company , " and i don't mean that in a good way .
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though frida is easier to swallow than julie taymor's preposterous titus , the eye candy here lacks considerable brio .
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drumline is -- the mere suggestion , albeit a visually compelling one , of a fully realized story .
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the whole movie is simply a lazy exercise in bad filmmaking that asks you to not only suspend your disbelief but your intelligence as well .
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the film affords us intriguing glimpses of the insights gleaned from a lifetime of spiritual inquiry , but ram dass : fierce grace doesn't organize it with any particular insight .
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pompous and garbled .
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billy crystal and robert de niro sleepwalk through vulgarities in a sequel you can refuse .
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it's loud and boring ; watching it is like being trapped at a bad rock concert .
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merely ( and literally ) tosses around sex toys and offers half-hearted paeans to empowerment that are repeatedly undercut by the brutality of the jokes , most at women's expense .
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if you want a movie time trip , the 1960 version is a far smoother ride .
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traffics in the kind of prechewed racial clichés that have already been through the corporate stand-up-comedy mill .
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the story is -- forgive me -- a little thin , and the filmmaking clumsy and rushed .
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. . . grows decidedly flimsier with its many out-sized , out of character and logically porous action set pieces .
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i wish windtalkers had had more faith in the dramatic potential of this true story . this would have been better than the fiction it has concocted , and there still could have been room for the war scenes .
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aggressive self-glorification and a manipulative whitewash . stay for the credits and see a devastating comic impersonation by dustin hoffman that is revelatory .
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none of the characters or plot-lines are fleshed-out enough to build any interest .
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as social exposé , skins has its heart in the right place , but that's not much to hang a soap opera on .
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the whole film has this sneaky feel to it – as if the director is trying to dupe the viewer into taking it all as very important simply because the movie is ugly to look at and not a hollywood product .
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there's a bit of thematic meat on the bones of queen of the damned , as its origins in an anne rice novel dictate , but generally , it's a movie that emphasizes style over character and substance .
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the only way to tolerate this insipid , brutally clueless film might be with a large dose of painkillers .
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this one is certainly well-meaning , but it's also simple-minded and contrived .
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coppola has made a film of intoxicating atmosphere and little else .
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bad and baffling from the get-go .
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a series of immaculately composed shots of patch adams quietly freaking out does not make for much of a movie .
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at a time when we've learned the hard way just how complex international terrorism is , collateral damage paints an absurdly simplistic picture .
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the impulses that produced this project . . . are commendable , but the results are uneven .
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a well-acted movie that simply doesn't gel .
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like a can of 2-day old coke . you can taste it , but there's no fizz .
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there's no excuse for following up a delightful , well-crafted family film with a computer-generated cold fish .
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both the crime story and the love story are unusual . but they don't fit well together and neither is well told .
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it's both sitcomishly predictable and cloying in its attempts to be poignant .
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other than a mildly engaging central romance , hospital is sickly entertainment at best and mind-destroying cinematic pollution at worst .
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jaglom offers the none-too-original premise that everyone involved with moviemaking is a con artist and a liar .
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outside of burger's desire to make some kind of film , it's really unclear why this project was undertaken
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was i scared ? only at the prospect of beck's next project . let's see , a haunted house , a haunted ship , what's next . . . ghost blimp ?
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a fragile framework upon which to hang broad , mildly fleshed-out characters that seem to have been conjured up only 10 minutes prior to filming .
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by the time the plot grinds itself out in increasingly incoherent fashion , you might be wishing for a watch that makes time go faster rather than the other way around .
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since lee is a sentimentalist , the film is more worshipful than your random e ! true hollywood story .
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wes craven's presence is felt ; not the craven of 'a nightmare on elm street' or 'the hills have eyes , ' but the sad schlock merchant of 'deadly friend . '
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sunshine state surveys the landscape and assesses the issues with a clear passion for sociology . but the cinematography is cloudy , the picture making becalmed .
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it's one long bore .
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it gets old quickly . watch barbershop again if you're in need of a cube fix--this isn't worth sitting through .
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it's leaden and predictable , and laughs are lacking .
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. . . a cinematic disaster so inadvertently sidesplitting it's worth the price of admission for the ridicule factor alone .
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skip this dreck , rent animal house and go back to the source .
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the movie is a desperate miscalculation . it gives poor dana carvey nothing to do that is really funny , and then expects us to laugh because he acts so goofy all the time .
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we just don't really care too much about this love story . in that setting , their struggle is simply too ludicrous and borderline insulting .
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the transporter bombards the viewer with so many explosions and side snap kicks that it ends up being surprisingly dull .
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uzumaki's interesting social parallel and defiant aesthetic seems a prostituted muse . . .
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'men in black ii creates a new threat for the mib , but recycles the same premise .
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large budget notwithstanding , the movie is such a blip on the year's radar screen that it's tempting just to go with it for the ride . but this time , the old mib label stands for milder isn't better .
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feels familiar and tired .
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a retread of material already thoroughly plumbed by martin scorsese .
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instead of making his own style , director marcus adams just copies from various sources – good sources , bad mixture
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criminal conspiracies and true romances move so easily across racial and cultural lines in the film that it makes my big fat greek wedding look like an apartheid drama .
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a bore that tends to hammer home every one of its points .
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a story which fails to rise above its disgusting source material .
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it's fitting that a movie as artificial and soulless as the country bears owes its genesis to an animatronic display at disneyland .
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starts as an intense political and psychological thriller but is sabotaged by ticking time bombs and other hollywood-action cliches .
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completely creatively stillborn and executed in a manner that i'm not sure could be a single iota worse . . . a soulless hunk of exploitative garbage .
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an uneven look into a grim future that doesn't come close to the level of intelligence and visual splendour that can be seen in other films based on philip k . dick stories .
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horrible
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the disjointed mess flows as naturally as jolie's hideous yellow 'do .
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bolstered by an astonishing voice cast ( excepting love hewitt ) , an interesting racial tension , and a storyline that i haven't encountered since at least pete's dragon .
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an authentically vague , but ultimately purposeless , study in total pandemonium .
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makes a joke out of car chases for an hour and then gives us half an hour of car chases .
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as the sulking , moody male hustler in the title role , [franco] has all of dean's mannerisms and self-indulgence , but none of his sweetness and vulnerability .
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the only thing to fear about " fear dot com " is hitting your head on the theater seat in front of you when you doze off thirty minutes into the film .
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it's too interested in jerking off in all its byzantine incarnations to bother pleasuring its audience .
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'synthetic' is the best description of this well-meaning , beautifully produced film that sacrifices its promise for a high-powered star pedigree .
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it concentrates far too much on the awkward interplay and utter lack of chemistry between chan and hewitt .
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impostor can't think of a thing to do with these characters except have them run through dark tunnels , fight off various anonymous attackers , and evade elaborate surveillance technologies .
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judd's characters ought to pick up the durable best seller smart women , foolish choices for advice .
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the script has less spice than a rat burger and the rock's fighting skills are more in line with steven seagal .
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this ill-conceived and expensive project winds up looking like a bunch of talented thesps slumming it .
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. . . there's a choppy , surface-effect feeling to the whole enterprise .
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doesn't get the job done , running off the limited chemistry created by ralph fiennes and jennifer lopez .
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a particularly joyless , and exceedingly dull , period coming-of-age tale .
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